--- title: Welcome! description: Discussions about in vivo fluorescence imaging and how to you optical phantoms and reference targets for performance characterization image: https://blog.quelimaging.com/hubfs/QUEL_Welcome.jpg --- [Skip to content](https://blog.quelimaging.com/welcome#main-content) [![QUEL_web_logo-1](https://blog.quelimaging.com/hs-fs/hubfs/QUEL_web_logo-1.png?width=320&height=120&name=QUEL_web_logo-1.png)](https://shop.quelimaging.com/) - [Home](https://www.quelimaging.com/) - [Products](https://shop.quelimaging.com/) - [Blog](https://blog.quelimaging.com/) - [News](https://www.quelimaging.com/news) - [About](https://www.quelimaging.com/about) Open main navigation Close main navigation - [Home](https://www.quelimaging.com/) - [Products](https://shop.quelimaging.com/) - [Blog](https://blog.quelimaging.com/) - [News](https://www.quelimaging.com/news) - [About](https://www.quelimaging.com/about) - [Contact us](https://share.hsforms.com/1qlwaYoKVQvGnvWZt0GNGagcxyzv) [Contact us](https://share.hsforms.com/1qlwaYoKVQvGnvWZt0GNGagcxyzv) ### View of Field Aug 31, 2022 11:21:29 AM # Welcome! ![Picture of Ethan LaRochelle](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/925081a77283a399dbd145b49b251212) [Ethan LaRochelle](https://blog.quelimaging.com/author/ethan) Share: [facebook-f icon](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://blog.quelimaging.com/welcome) [linkedin-in icon](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://blog.quelimaging.com/welcome) [Twitter icon](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://blog.quelimaging.com/welcome) [pinterest-p icon](http://pinterest.com/pin/create/link/?url=https://blog.quelimaging.com/welcome) [envelope icon](mailto:?body=https://blog.quelimaging.com/welcome) Welcome to the QUEL Imaging Blog! We’re starting this as a way to share our experiences supporting the field of *in vivo* fluorescence imaging. What topics will we cover? That’s a great question we’re working on, but initially we plan to provide tips on how to perform optical imaging system characterizations. We also plan to provide commentary on recent publications and events in the field. We know developing a new imaging system or contrast agent is a long and difficult process and want to help make you more efficient. Why rely on developing ad hoc characterization techniques that are often difficult to reproduce? We would like to share best practices and highlight available tools and targets that could make you and your team more efficient. Why is the blog called View of Field? Field of view is defined as “the range of the observable world visible at any given time”. This blog aims to mirror this (pun intended), to provide perspective from the field about how we can characterize different imaging systems. ## Related posts [![Ethan LaRochelle presenting the QUEL Imaging poster at the ARPA-H PSI kickoff meeting](https://blog.quelimaging.com/hs-fs/hubfs/20230907_Chicago_ARPA-H_PSI.jpg?height=200&name=20230907_Chicago_ARPA-H_PSI.jpg)](https://blog.quelimaging.com/arpa-h-psi-kickoff) [imageguidedsurgery](https://blog.quelimaging.com/tag/imageguidedsurgery) ## [Our analysis of the ARPA-H PSI program](https://blog.quelimaging.com/arpa-h-psi-kickoff) ![Picture of Ethan LaRochelle](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/925081a77283a399dbd145b49b251212) [Ethan LaRochelle](https://blog.quelimaging.com/author/ethan) Sep 12, 2023 7:58:10 AM I wrote the following summary after attending the ARPA-H kick-off meeting in Chicago on September... 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